SEATTLE - Recent reports are signaling that Brazil's biggest and best-organized criminal organization known as Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), or First Capital Command, continues to take ...

The gang’s presence is being felt all over the forest — in gang ... wreckage of illegal gold mining. The practice accounts for only a fraction of Amazon deforestation, far less than ...

The Nez Perce Tribe accused the U.S. Forest Service on Monday of violating its treaty rights by approving a giant, open-pit ...

As a result, deforestation linked to garimpos in the Amazon plummeted by 30% compared ... lost 13,000 hectares (32,123 acres) of forest to illegal gold mining in 2023, according to a report ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and the revenues ...

A company called Perpetua Resources – formerly known as Midas Gold – seeks to resume mining gold, silver and the chemical ...

Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight ...

The U.S. Forest Service has issued a final record of decision approving the Stibnite Gold Mine Project in Central Idaho’s ...